Do Only RARE Reptiles Matter? | Chris Leone - Garden State Tortoise

Chris Leone founded Garden State Tortoise in 2011 with his wife Casey. Garden State Tortoise is a breeding facility, a rescue, and a permanent home for many different species of turtle and tortoise. In this episode, Chris discusses how GST started and the type of work they do today. He tells us about Otis, the incredible Eastern Box Turtle that recently went viral on YouTube as well as a mysterious blue box turtle he found in the wild. Chris also breaks down a blog post that he wrote that focuses on a poisonous attitude often seen in herpetoculture.

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0:00 Coming Up
1:09 Guest Introduction
3:16 Housekeeping
4:00 Welcome Chris / Tell me about Otis!
13:48 Training Otis?
16:00 How did you get started?
20:05 Transistion from Breeder to Conservation
25:10 How did GST grow over time?
30:55 Building the Nature Centre
33:44 Incredible DIY Background
37:49 Building Outdoor Pens
42:08 How to Set up Box Turtle Babies
51:13 Do only RARE Reptiles Matter?
1:04:58 Strange Blue Box Turtle
1:10:43 Bio-Security
1:13:58 Hibernating Turtles/ Tortoises outside
1:21:21 GST YouTube Channel
1:24:36 Closing Thoughts
1:25:16 Outro

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